Thomas Jefferson

"We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy."--Thomas Jefferson


"America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. "
--John Quincy Adams
US diplomat & politician (1767 - 1848)

“Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation”
-James Madison at the Virginia Ratification Debates
"With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators."

- James Madison's Letter to James Robertson, April 20, 1831


Thursday, December 9, 2010

The Top 10 Simple Truths on Taxes and Tax Cuts...

10. We fought a Revolution in 1776 in part over a 3% Tea Tax. Today we hand over 30, 40, 50, 60% of our income and we are STILL called selfish!

9. Liberals and Marxists are only concerned about "adding to the deficit" and "paying for xyz program" when it involves giving you and I back money or freedoms. When they want to spend more and expand government, it is "an investment" and the "right thing to do"...

8. We don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem! It is SIMPLE to solve all our woes RIGHT NOW. SLASH THE GOVERNMENT AND SPENDING ESPECIALLY ALL ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS!

7. The laws of economics that you and I use in our own lives and homes are EXACTLY THE SAME that would apply in Washington, DC despite the lies and magic money they think they have! Doubt that? Then see the next point.

6. If you want to know where America is going on this current path, you don't have to imagine. Simply turn on the TV and watch what is happening in Europe right now with riots. They are simply a few years ahead of us on the Socialism experiment failure but it is window into our future if we don't reverse course!

5. I believe in tax cuts FOR EVERYONE ESPECIALLY the so-called rich! They pay the very highest taxes and the largest burden. According to the IRS, 86% of all Federal taxes are paid by the top 25% of taxpayers!!! A progressive (there's that word "progressive" again!) tax code punishes success and innovation and rewards slough! Raising taxes on these individuals and more importantly small businesses, you stifle economic growth, reduce tax revenue, and create downward spiral that we are witnessing now!

4. I never got a job from a poor person!

3. The current debate on taxes is NOT about "tax cuts" but about maintaining the current "tax rates"--which should be lowered even more!!

2. Conservatives and Republicans should stand firm and fight for permanent extensions of these current rates and deny ANY deficit spending on things like more unemployment benefits without a TRUE reduction in spending to pay for it! They also should stand firm on the most sinister of all taxes--the so-called Death Tax or Estate Tax. This evil liberal invention has destroyed many small businesses, farms, and more by robbing future generations the right to pass on the fruits of their labor and instead redistribute the wealth to the recipient class!!

1. I AM SICK OF HEARING LIBERALS SAY WE "CAN'T AFFORD" THESE TAX CUTS OR THAT THEY WILL "COST" THE GOVERNMENT $X. IT IS NOT THEIR MONEY--IT IS OURS!!!!! THE GOVERNMENT HAS NOTHING EXCEPT THAT WHAT IT STEALS FROM US THROUGH COERCION AND THE UNJUST TAX CODE-(which may not even be legal--but that is for another discussion). AND WHO IS IT FOR POLITICIANS TO DECIDE HOW MUCH MONEY ONE SHOULD BE "ALLOWED TO KEEP'?!?!?! OUR FOUNDERS WOULD BE OUTRAGED--SEE POINT #10.


BOTTOM LINE: I AM AGAINST THE CURRENT TAX COMPROMISE!! I am a typical middle class taxpayer that will DEFINITELY be hurt by these tax rates going up, but I cannot support what amounts to another trillion dollar wasteful stimulus and bribes to politicians to gain their support. Let's have a straight up or down CLEAN vote on the extensions (hopefully permanent) of the rates WITHOUT the pork and deficit adding waste!!

How to do this?? Support the Pence-DeMint Bills!! These would make the tax rates permanent, eliminate the evil death tax, and permanently patch the AMT!

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